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The sound of squeak­ing shock ab­sorbers, un­der­car­riages scrap­ing against as­phalt, and blar­ing horns have be­come all too fa­mil­iar along Pa­pourie Road, Lengua, as mo­torists nav­i­gate a pre­car­i­ous land­slip that has con­sumed al­most half the road­way.

Lo­cat­ed near Ra­jack Ali Av­enue, the land­slip—stretch­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly 300 feet long and plung­ing 20 feet deep—has al­ready claimed homes and threat­ens more. De­spite grow­ing con­cerns, res­i­dents say their pleas for in­ter­ven­tion have been ig­nored.

“No­body re­al­ly cares about us up here, you know,” a frus­trat­ed res­i­dent shout­ed, rais­ing a plac­ard in protest.